data collection, sharing and accessing practices as per Government of India rules and policies

1. Data Management: Acts,
Rules and Policies in India
SK Soam
Head, ICM Division, NAARM
soam@naarm.ernet.in

2. Right to Information Act-2005
• Sec 2 (f)- data in electronic for, reports
• Sec 4(b)- Access through network
• Sec 8- negative list. Sec 8(9)
– Endanger life or physical safety-AIPR
– Integrity- particular class vs working
efficiency/ particular instt vs WE
– IPR/trade/competitiveness
• Sec 9- Rejection/ infringement of
copyright Act in digital library
• Citizens of India vs State

3. Information Technology Act-2000
• Offences/contravention by any
individual in India or abroad
• 43-A- penalty to damage computer,
system, network
• 43-B- download, extract data
• 72- penalty for breach of
confidentiality/privacy- imprisonment
up to two years

4. Information Technology Act-2008
• 43-A- widen scope- firms handling
processing under body corporate/
reasonable security practices and
procedures
• 70-A- national nodal agency for critical
information structure
• 72-A- including intermediaries (AMC),
imprisonment up to 3 years, penalty- Rs
5Lakh
• 77 & 78- enlarged and expended i.e.
Investigating Officer of DSP rank

5. IT (Reasonable security practices &
procedures and sensitive personal data
or information) Rules-2011
• Rule-3- SPDI- biometric data, DNA profile,
sexual orientation
– Women from Tamil Nadu vs working efficiency?
– Name of farmer-type of soil-yield-income-
community of neighboring farmers- loan from
money lender-community of farmer-BPL cat.
• EC regulation 95/46- identification with 1 or
more factors including economic, cultural,
social identity
• Rule-8- Keeping secure
• RTI Act prevail upon IT Act

6. Other Act (s)
• Biological Diversity Act-2002
• Indian Copyright

7. The personal data (protection) bill-
2013
• Handwriting, gait analysis, speech
• Sensitive personal data- sexual
preferences, ethnicity, financial
information
• Data collection with PIC
• No exemption

8. Geo-data
• International boundary
• Treaty of Sugauli- 1816
• Durand line- 1893
• Mc Mohan line- 1914
• Radcliffe line- 17 August 1947
• http://qz.com/224821/see-how-
borders-change-on-google-maps-
depending-on-where-you-view-them/

9. The Economist-2012/ BBC-2014

10. Xiaomi launch in Delhi

11. The geospatial information
regulation bill-2016
• Citizens of India/ outside of India
• Any person commit offence beyond India
• National security, sovereignty, safety and
integrity
• Security Vetting Authority- data-
acquisition, possession, dissemination,
publication outside India
• Wrong depiction of boundaries including
international boundary

12. National Map Policy-2005
• Survey of India- SOI
• Defense Series Maps- classified by Defense only/
Open Series Maps- unrestricted with one time
clearance from Defense
• Digital topographical data- license to only Indians
• Map Transaction Registry
• Licenses for several purposes- publishing, value
addition etc [care to be taken as per NMP in value
addition]
• Copyright with SOI
• Permission if international boundary

13. Remote Sensing Data Policy-2011
• Dept. of Space
• Data for >1 meter resolution by govt.
Department only. For private
recommendation of any Govt. Dept
required
• NRSC and user specific sale/ non-
disclosure agreement

14. National Data Sharing and
Accessibility Policy- 2012
• Fulfil sec 4(2) of RTI Act-2005
• Open access
• Data access (negative list, restricted
data, sensitive data, sharable data)
• Implementation guidelines-2013
• Data portal of India [https://data.gov.in/
• Data controller/ Data contributor-
https://datacms.nic.in
• Hand written, OCR, PDF- not allowed
• File name- @, % etc not allowed

15. Open Access Policies
• OER Policy- 2007 [MHRD] National Mission
on Education through ICT
– Creative commons/ OER commons
• Free & Open Source Software Policy
(FOSS) - 2015 [MHRD]
– Free- freedom to use
– Open source- availability of source code
• Open Access Policy of ICAR-2013
– Open Access Repository (OAR) with central
harvesting
– Strengthen OAR

16. Your Own Policy?
• National and International workshops
– Creative commons and OER commons
• Koha based library management
• NAARM- OAR
– www.eprints.naarm.org.in/
– NAARM annual report
• NAARM- FOSS- AHP Analyser
– www.ahpanalyser.naarm.org.in/
• NAARM Dataverse
– https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/NAARM
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